NCBI Taxonomy: 1769
Mycobacterium leprae (ncbi_taxid: 1769)
found 2 associated metabolites at species taxonomy rank level.
Ancestor: Mycobacterium
Child Taxonomies: Mycobacterium leprae TN, Mycobacterium leprae Br4923, Mycobacterium leprae Kyoto-2, Mycobacterium leprae 3125609, Mycobacterium leprae 7935681
Muramic acid
Muramic acid is an amino sugar acid. In terms of chemical composition, it is the ether of lactic acid and glucosamine. It occurs naturally as N-acetylmuramic acid in peptidoglycan, whose primary function is a structural component of many typical bacterial cell walls. Muramic acid, also known as muramate or murexide, belongs to the class of organic compounds known as sugar acids and derivatives. Sugar acids and derivatives are compounds containing a saccharide unit which bears a carboxylic acid group. Muramic acid is an amino sugar acid. It occurs naturally as N-acetylmuramic acid in peptidoglycan, whose primary function is a structural component of many typical bacterial cell walls. In terms of chemical composition, it is the ether of lactic acid and glucosamine. Muramic acid is a marker of bacterial peptidoglycan, in environmental and clinical specimens. (PMID: 10778926) [HMDB] Muramic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. https://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=1114-41-6 (retrieved 2024-07-01) (CAS RN: 1114-41-6). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).